Kash Patel Confirmed to Lead Reshaping of FBI Under Trump

Charles Kuppermanformer United States government official

This is not a U.S. company and it’s a conflict of interest financially,

Kupperman said the day before Patel was confirmed

Kash PatelfBI director nominee

We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections,

Patel said previously during a podcast appearance alongside Steve Bannon

Kash PatelfBI director nominee

It’s not an enemies list. That is a total mischaracterization,

Patel said

The only qualification Kash Patel has to be FBI director is that when everyone else in the first Trump administration said, ‘No, I won’t do that, that crosses moral, ethical and legal lines,’ Kash Patel said, ‘Sign me up.’

He added

You will rue the day of this vote if it's in favor of Kash Patel, because the American people will hold you accountable, and we will make sure that the American people know about this vote,

he concluded

Benny Johnson (columnist)conservative commentator

Democrat Sen. Whitehouse seems awfully scared of Kash Patel cleaning up the FBI…,

conservative commentator Benny Johnson said

Senator, the evil is already inside the building,

Republican digital operative Alex Sears said

Kash Patel, mark my words, will cause evil in this building behind us, and Republicans who vote for him will rue that day,

Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Thursday morning outside the FBI headquarters

Did Sheldon Whitehouse come up with this pathetic line of attack at his all-white beach club?"

asked conservative commentator and longtime Trump adviser Steve Cortes, referencing Whitehouse's membership in an exclusive beach club that has a controversial history